"Britain’s economy growth has outstripped other major economies, employment is high (and unemployment is low) and wages have been rising above inflation. Yet, consumer sentiment has been slow to respond. Perhaps we will need to see a more sustained period of growth in earnings before Britons start ...

"Preliminary 2014 data suggests that the number of births ticked upward for the first time since 2007. Though the increase was small it effectively ended a three-year streak of birth rates at historic lows. There is a possibility that the increase is the initiation of a “baby bounce,” or an ...